Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting chromium package, versions [,90.0.4430.72)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (59th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-CHROMIUM-2410617
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed26 Apr 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 26 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-21218  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade chromium to version 90.0.4430.72 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Resource. Uninitialized data in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 90.0.4430.72 allowed a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information from process memory via a crafted PDF file.

CVSS Scores

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